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Diversity and the Blue M & M
When I was a kid the calm evening air would sometimes be dramatically and suddenly broken by my father's excited shout. "There's a blue on!" he would cry out from the living room. Sometimes this simply got shortened to, "A blue!" The tone was such that we all knew to drop whatever we were doing and come running to the TV where on the screen appeared that rarest of things, a black person. We knew we had to come quickly since the presence of African Americans on television at that time wasn't nearly as commonplace as it is now. Blink and you'd miss it. Certainly my father's forceful tone, which shot through the house, signaled that something of high significance was taking place.